Help - Keeping my name from comments

[CI&DETS]

Hello everyone,

I usually use XChange Viewer's comment to add notes when peer reviewing some papers for a couple of journals, and as you know those things are supposed to be anonymous!, but as it turns out I just discovered that I've been sending my name at the start of each comment! I think the program is getting my name from my windows account, is there any way to change that so that I can do my work in anonymity?

Thanks in advanced!

[Stefan - PDF-XChange]

Hello CI&DETS,

The author property for each annotation is required by the PDF specification, so it has to be there. To obfuscate the name - before sending a file - you can run the following script from the JS console (Ctrl-J to open it):

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var annots;
annots = this.getAnnots();

for (i = 0; i<annots.length; i++){
  if (annots[i].author == "YOUR NAME HERE AS IT APPEARS IN AN ANNOTATION") {
    annots[i].author = "";
  }
}

Of course - make sure to update the above script with the correct name, and then hit the "run" button. This will change the author of all your comments to "unknown".

Regards,
Stefan

[CI&DETS]

Thank you so very much Stefan!! I will try it right away!

[Stefan - PDF-XChange]

[CI&DETS]

It works like a charm!!!

Again, thank you Stefan, you are a god among men!!

[Stefan - PDF-XChange]

Thanks for the kind words CI&DETS,

Proclaiming me 'god' created quite a furor amongst my colleagues, and they started claiming other celestial positions for themselves

Glad we could help!
Enjoy using our products and
Kind Regards,
Stefan